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Cambridge City Council
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A report by Cambridge City Council on the investments required to increase the capacity of the sewage treatment works at Milton.
Topics: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, River Cam
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Mar 12, 2023
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HMSO
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East of England Regional Plan / Regional Spatial Strategy - the final draft before the 2010 General Election, after which the Coalition Government got rid of the entire tier of regional government in England, taking these plans/strategies with them.
Topics: Town planning, regional planning, urban planning
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Mar 6, 2023
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CALH
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Cambridgeshire Association for Local History Review No.18 - 2009 https://www.calh.org.uk/ Contents include: Men and women of property in 17th Century Cambridge Maintaining Cambridgeshire's Roads 1600-1700 HW Saunders' History Teachers' Miscellany A Caring County? Social Welfare in Hertfordshire since 1600 Mill Road history Project Useful websites [in 2013]
Topics: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Local History
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Cambridgeshire Association for Local History Review 2009. ( https://www.calh.org.uk/ ) Contents include: Haslingfield's medieval shrine Romsey Town in the 1960s - Allan Brigham Women farmers in 19thC Wickham Beginnings of Organised football in Cambridgeshire
Topics: Cambridgeshire, Cambridge, Local History
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Mar 6, 2023
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Cambridgeshire Association for Local History Review No.10 - 2001. ( https://www.calh.org.uk/ ) Contents include: The clay tobacco pipe industry in Cambs & Hunts The Hodsonian community at Manea Cambridgeshire Constabulary at the time of its formation (in the 1830s) The classical academy Memories of Cambridge
Topics: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Local History
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Mar 6, 2023
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CALH
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Cambridgeshire Association for Local History Review no.09 - Year 2000. https://www.calh.org.uk/ Contents include Histon Road Cemetery A Trumpington Scandal Nonconformity [independent churches] pre-1850 The Musgraves [& Great St Mary's, Cambridge] Memories of Swavesey
Topics: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Local History, Histon, Trumpington
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Mar 6, 2023
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Mar 6, 2023
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CALH
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Note the re-ordered/refreshed numbering from the early 1990s. Cambridgeshire Association for Local History Review ( https://www.calh.org.uk /) Contents include: Pampisford County School Cambs Collectors and Bygones Group Linton Manors John Bolton's furniture removals (Mill Road area by Allan Brigham) Cambridgeshire Village Signs
Topics: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Local History
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Mar 6, 2023
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CALH
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Cambridgeshire Association for Local History ( https://www.calh.org.uk/ ) annual bulletin for 1974 Contents include: 55 St Andrew's Street - John Delaporte the Barber Cambridge Trade Tokens & those issuing them Precious old fragments in an old brick wall The Old Post Office on Petty Cury (ft Queen Mary, consort of George V) Black Horse Lane, Swavesey Thriplow in my young days - Fred Gamble
Topics: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Petty Cury, Local history
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Mar 6, 2023
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CALH
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Annual Bulletin of the Cambridgeshire Association for Local History https://www.calh.org.uk/ Contents include: Voluntary housing in Cambridge - Joan Fitch OBE Britain's most famous horse - The Godolphin - Sylvia Beamon Cambridge Benefit Society - CJ Puddick "How's that" - FC Wood Helen M Larke 1887-1986
Topics: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Godolphin, Local HIstory, social housing
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Mar 6, 2023
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Mar 6, 2023
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CALH
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Annual Bulletin from the Cambridgeshire Association for Local History ( https://www.calh.org.uk/ ) Articles include: A plethora of public houses - Leonard Amey Structural history of a farmhouse in Bottisham - Brian Threlfall Changes in local agriculture 1916-86 - Noel Newman Medieval main roads in Southern Cambs - Susan Oosthuizen Swavesey in early 1900s
Topics: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Local History, Bottisham, Swavesey
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Feb 26, 2023
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Feb 26, 2023
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Edge Hill College of Higher Education
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A series of papers presented to the Transport Geography Study Group 1981 (UK) including Mobility & countryside Impact of inflation on recreational travel Access to urban fringe / informal countryside recreation Recreational transport in North Yorkshire From conurbation to countryside - a day out by bus and train in West Midlands Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Steam train operation on British scenic rail routes Recreational transport in the Peak District Caravanning Recreation in the...
Topics: Geography, transport, trains, buses, accessibility, recreation, leisure
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Feb 26, 2023
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Feb 26, 2023
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Cambridgeshire County Council
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Proposals from what is now the county council, 1968
Topics: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Jan 26, 2023
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Jan 26, 2023
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Sir Ernest Simon
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An analysis of what is needed to enable Britain to rebuild after WWII and provide everyone with a decent home in a good neighbourhood with access to all the essential public services, for work, and recreation
Topics: Newtowns, reconstruction, welfare state, architecture, urban design, town planning
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Jan 25, 2023
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Jan 25, 2023
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Ian Nairn
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A critique of urban design and architecture emerging from the ashes of WWII.
Topics: Urban design, architecture, newtowns
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Jan 25, 2023
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Jan 25, 2023
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Ian Nairn
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A manifesto/guide from the mid-1950s responding to contemporary town planning, urban design, and architectural styles after WWII.
Topics: Architecture, urban design, town planning, post-war UK, newtowns
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Jan 18, 2023
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Jan 18, 2023
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Institute of Geological Sciences and HMSO
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Geological Investigations for the Wash Water Storage Scheme, proposing new reservoirs at the The Wash between Lincolnshire and Norfolk coastlines, UK. The project was abandoned.
Topics: Reservoirs, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Flood protection
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Nov 22, 2022
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Nov 22, 2022
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Cambridgeshire Life Ltd
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A lifestyle magazine for Cambridgeshire & Peterborough whose contents have been digitised from the Cambridgeshire Collection in Cambridge (UK) Central Library to assist researchers on local history.
Topics: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Local history
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Nov 12, 2022
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Nov 12, 2022
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What's On Cambridge
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An events guide for Cambridge (UK) from August 1965
Topic: Cambridge UK
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Nov 12, 2022
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Nov 12, 2022
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Workers' Educational Association
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An essay by R.H. Tawney for the Workers' Educational Association, published in 1943 - concluding that such elite fee-paying schools such as Eton and Harrow should be brought into the state sector. This was at a time of significant public debate on what sort of country - and world - that people wanted to build once the war was over.
Topics: Education, public schools, private schools, Harrow, Eton College, Oxbridge, inequalities, schools
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Nov 12, 2022
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Nov 12, 2022
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Workers' Educational Association
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The history of the workhouses in Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire - incl the old Workhouse on Mill Road, Cambridge.
Topics: Workhouses, welfare state, Cambridge UK, Cambridgeshire
Cambridge Voice 1969 - a grassroots radical community newspaper featuring a mix of eclectic columns, art work, and news/opinion items about the comprehensive redevelopment of large parts of Cambridge at a time of huge physical and social change in our city. Creators: Celia Boggis Nigel Pennick Jonathan Zeitlyn Lobie John Nicholson
Topics: Cambridge, Cambridge UK, Cambridge University, local history
Cambridge Voice 1969 - a grassroots radical community newspaper featuring a mix of eclectic columns, art work, and news/opinion items about the comprehensive redevelopment of large parts of Cambridge at a time of huge physical and social change in our city. Creators: Celia Boggis Nigel Pennick Jonathan Zeitlyn Lobie John Nicholson
Topics: Cambridge UK, Cambridge, local history, anti-capitalism, town-gown
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Nov 12, 2022
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Varsity Newspaper / Graham Dukes ed.
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A series of articles about life at the University of Cambridge - plus a couple of town-related articles including: A Cambridge education today [1952] - Dr David Thomson All in a year's work - News Review by Jocelyn Perraton Cambridge goes to the theatre - John Wilders Cambridge sporting retrospect - Paul Rudder Poets, writers, and journalists - Donald Dunn Religion in Cambridge - a survey - Roy Pryce The University City - by Cambridge City Council Librarian W.A. Munford Cambridge on the River -...
Topics: Cambridge UK, University of Cambridge, Local History
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Nov 12, 2022
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Nov 12, 2022
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Workers' Educational Association
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An analysis of how transport in the UK evolved throughout the post-WW2 years. Covers car use, the collapse of cycling, the growth of road freight, and the changes in rail use.
Topics: Public transport, road transport, transport policy, railways, cycling, freight
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Nov 12, 2022
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Nov 12, 2022
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Shelter
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Sponsored by an alliance of local trades union branches, local Labour Party constituency parties, tenants associations, and community groups, and campaigning organisations, this pamphlet was produced by the Shelter Community Action Team - Shelter, the UK housing charity.
Topics: Council houses, Labour Party, Trade Unions, Public housing, social housing, municipal housing
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Nov 10, 2022
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Nov 10, 2022
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Ankers, Kaiserman, Shepley
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Private Eye meets the Royal Town Planning Institute. A satirical look at the system of town planning in the 1970s.
Topics: Satire, town planning, urban design, local government, central government, housing
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Nov 10, 2022
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Nov 10, 2022
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Mary Paley Marshall
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Economist Mary Paley Marshall's memoirs. One of the first women students at Newnham College, Cambridge.
Topics: Mary Paley Marshall, Newnham College, Cambridge
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Nov 10, 2022
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Nov 10, 2022
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A Winstan Bond
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By A. Winstan Bond - his presentation for the Walter Gratwicke Memorial Lecture 1979 with the Tramway and Light Railway Society & the Tramway Museum Society
Topics: Trams, Light Rail, Tramways
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Nov 6, 2022
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Nov 6, 2022
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Philip Booth, Nicholas Taylor
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Featuring 'town' buildings rather than college/university buildings, most of which were constructed in the 1960s/early 1970s at a time of slum clearance and huge social change.
Topic: Cambridge local history
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Nov 6, 2022
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Nov 6, 2022
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CALH
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Annual review of the Cambridgeshire Association for Local History for 2012, contents include: Sir John Hynde of Anglesey Abbey & Madingley Hall Whaddon Rectory March in the Seventeenth Century Robert Roe the engraver The Medical Officer's investigation into Cambridge in 1876 - a transcript of Dr Bushell Anningson's report to the Borough Council Harriemere Near Ely - the changing course of the river
Topics: Cambridgeshire Local history, Anglesey Abbey, Madingley Hall, Cambridge
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Nov 6, 2022
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Nov 6, 2022
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CALH
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Cambridgeshire Local History Society annual review 2004 - today the CALH. Contents include: Wisbech dissenters (anti-Church of England clerics) Grafton and gas - the building of Cambridge's first gas works by the late Allan Brigham Sidney Dairy on King Street Local Book Awards
Topics: Cambridgeshire, local history, Cambridge gas works, grafton centre, Cambridge
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Nov 6, 2022
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Nov 6, 2022
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CALH
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Annual Review of the Cambridgeshire Local History Society 1999 (today the CALH). Contents include The Spinning House (the private prison of the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge - finally closed in the late 1890s!) Water - in the days before mains supplies Spotting tomorrow's antiques today
Topics: Cambridgeshire, Local History, Cambridge
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Nov 6, 2022
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Nov 6, 2022
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CALH
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Annual review of the Cambridgeshire Local History Society - now CALH, from November 1998. Contents include: The Falcon Inn (underneath Lion Yard Shopping Centre) Linton tenants and landholding between 1279 - 1600 Open field, Horse, Fen & Common - the survival of an open field system at Soham
Topics: Cambridgeshire, Local History, Cambridge
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Nov 6, 2022
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Nov 6, 2022
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CALH
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By the Cambridgeshire Local History Society - now CALH, their annual review (formerly bulletin) 1997. Contents include: Pampisford Schools Family of St Edmunds - Addenbrooke's Old Hospital John Saffrey - Robin Hood of Quy Almshouses in Cambridgeshire Part IV
Topics: Cambridgeshire, Local History, Addenbrooke's, Pampisford, Cambridge
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Nov 2, 2022
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Nov 2, 2022
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The Labour Party (UK)
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Youth policies from the UK Labour Party
Topics: UK Labour Party, youth politics, education, training, welfare state
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Nov 1, 2022
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Nov 1, 2022
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Ministry of Housing and Local Government
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Known as "The Skeffington Report" A guide on public consultations for local development plans in England, Wales, and Scotland
Topics: Town planning, local government, england
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Oct 30, 2022
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Oct 30, 2022
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Cambridgeshire County Council
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By the old Cambridge Curriculum Development Centre, produced by local geography teachers, this is a guide for local schools on how to educate children about how Cambridge urbanised from its earliest years to the then present post-war times.
Topics: Cambridge, local history
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Oct 28, 2022
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Oct 28, 2022
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The Labour Party, UK
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The UK Labour Party's policy on slum clearance and old houses, from the early 1960s following from their "Signposts For the Sixties" document of July 1961.
Topics: Labour, Housing, Slum Clearance
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Oct 27, 2022
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Oct 27, 2022
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George Pryme
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From the Cambridgeshire Collection in Cambridge Central Library (UK) https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/residents/libraries-leisure-culture/local-studies/cambridgeshire-collection An incredibly powerful piece by the first Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge, George Pryme ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pryme ) who describes the corruption in the Borough of Cambridge under the Tory Duke of Rutland and his main agent John Mortlock. Pryme was a Whig and...
Topics: Cambridge, Whigs, Tories, Electoral Reform, Local Government, University of Cambridge
From the Cambridgeshire Collection, digitised contents pages of the old Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough Life 1967-69. To enable historians and researchers to find out the titles of articles published in this lifestyle magazine for the counties in the late 1960s at a time of significant social and urban change in Cambridge and Peterborough in particular.
Topics: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdon, Peterborough
By the Cambridgeshire Association for Local History https://www.calh.org.uk/ The Association exists to preserve and promote knowledge of local history of Cambridge and Cambridgeshire, through expert talks, research and the promotion of historical book writing through our book awards. Every year the society publishes a journal. With the exception of a couple of missing years in the late 1980s, and 2005, these are the digitised contents pages for each of the journals that you can access at the...
Topics: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Local History
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Oct 12, 2022
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Oct 12, 2022
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The Labour Party
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Transcripts of speeches by Hugh Gaitskell and George Brown of the Labour Party on whether to join what is now the EU, but then known as the Common Market. Oct 1962.
Topics: Labour, EU, EC, EEC, Gaitskell
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Oct 12, 2022
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Oct 12, 2022
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COHSE
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A history of 75 years of the Confederation of Health Service Employees - which later merged to form UNISON the Union.
Topics: Trade Unions, COHSE, Unison
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Oct 7, 2022
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Oct 7, 2022
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Kate Ascher
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By Kate Ascher, an analysis of outsourcing and the different types and methods of privatisation.
Topics: Outsourcing, privatisation, Thatcher
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Oct 7, 2022
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Oct 7, 2022
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Demos
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On the year Labour were re-elected in the 1966 general election. Contents include: The General Election The Economy The National Plan Princes and Incomes Policy Public Sector Science and Technology Agriculture Transport Housing Social Security (Welfare/benefits) NHS / National Health Service Labour in the World Talking Sense on Defence
Topics: Labour Party, Harold Wilson
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Oct 7, 2022
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Oct 7, 2022
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The Ecology Party, The Green Party
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A manifesto around the time of the 1983 general election in the UK by the Ecology Party - which became the Green Party of England and Wales. Contents include: Part One - Green politics - Peace [this was Cold War era - and a freeze in relations too] - Work - Land - People and Society - The World - The Spirit Part Two (Policy Index) - I - Action for life on earth now! - II - World Peace - III - Economics, Employment, and Industry - IV - People and Society - V - The Environment
Topics: The Green Party, The Ecology Party, Environmentalism, Climate Change, Pollution, Green Politics,...
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Oct 7, 2022
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Oct 7, 2022
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The Labour Party
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By the UK Labour Party - their proposals following the Redcliffe Maud Report from 1969 (the summary is at https://archive.org/details/local-government-reform-summary-pamphlet and the main report (part 1 is at https://archive.org/details/1969-royal-commission-local-gov-vol-1-report ) - Labour's ultimately abandoned proposals for the wholesale restructure of local government in England.
Topics: UK Labour, Labour Party, Local Government, English local councils
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Oct 6, 2022
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Oct 6, 2022
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Conservative Party Centre
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A short history of, and argument for the mass privatisation programme of the Thatcher Government, followed by the John Major government that concludes with what was the proposed privatisation of the railways. One for public policy students as well as contemporary historians - how does the case in this pamphlet by the Conservative Party Centre compare with what has since happened in the 25+ years since? Which privatisations were successful? Which were the least successful? Which were the most...
Topics: Privatisation, Thatcher, John Major, Conservative Party.
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Oct 4, 2022
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Oct 4, 2022
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The Labour Party
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A pamphlet on a land value tax by Josiah Wedgwood MP of the Labour Party.
Topics: Land Tax, Local taxation, rates, local government
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Oct 4, 2022
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Oct 4, 2022
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Municipal Tramways and Transport Association (MTTA)
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A speech by Ballie Dollan of the Municipal Tramways and Transport Association on the relationship of public transport and local government. From Sept 1929 in Great Yarmouth.
Topics: Trams, Tramways, Public transport, Local Government
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Oct 4, 2022
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Oct 4, 2022
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Bow Group
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Formed by the Young Conservatives in 1951, the Bow Group published this document on the much-debated topic of restructuring local government. This contains their proposals for new regions and for local government finance.
Topics: Conservatives, Bow Group, Local Government, Public Services
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Sep 29, 2022
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Sep 29, 2022
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Mary Chamberlain
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What was it like for women growing up and living in an isolated village in the Fens of East Anglia? Set in the fictional village of Gislea - a pseudonym for the village of Isleham in East Cambridgeshire just north of Newmarket (hence one of the interviewees giving testimony of working at Homerton College). It puts into context some of the transport debates happening in Cambridgeshire in the 2020s.
Topics: Cambridgeshire, Fenland, Women's Rights, East Anglia
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Sep 29, 2022
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Sep 29, 2022
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Unison the Union
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An illustrated history of the National Union of Public Employees before it merged with sister trade unions in the UK to form Unison the Union in the early 1990s.
Topics: Trade Unions, The TUC, Unison, Unison the Union, NUPE, NALGO
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Sep 29, 2022
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Sep 29, 2022
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Haverhill Urban District Council
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The Haverhill Master Plan - effectively the local development plan for Haverhill, published in 1971. Full of maps and diagrams.
Topics: Haverhill, Suffolk, Cambridge, Town Planning, Local Plan
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Sep 29, 2022
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Sep 29, 2022
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V Gollancz
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A pre-election publication from Victor Gollancz in the run up to the 1945 UK General Election. Each chapter addresses a different group of the electorate based on occupations to political dispositions.
Topics: Labour, Attlee, 1945, UK General Election
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Sep 26, 2022
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Sep 26, 2022
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Basil Druitt
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A history of how the Welfare State developed in the UK.
Topics: Welfare State, Social Reform, Beveridge
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Sep 26, 2022
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Sep 26, 2022
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Central Office of Information
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An extensive snapshot of what was happening in the UK during a period of massive expansion of the welfare state (in the run up to the creation of the NHS), and a period of mass demobilisation. Includes high level statistics including losses from war - people, buildings, infrastructure.
Topics: Welfare State, Attlee, Post-war, Reconstruction, Labour Government, Beveridge
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Sep 26, 2022
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Sep 26, 2022
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Die Gruenen
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An English language translation of the German Green Party from 1983 - when Germany was separated into West Germany and East Germany as a result of Cold War division of Europe, with East Germany run as a command economy and West Germany run as a mixed/market economy. Both had huge problems with pollution. From this emerged one of the biggest environmentalist movements in Europe - one that is now (as of 2022) part of the 'traffic light coalition' government in Germany, with the Green Party's Anna...
Topics: Die Gruenen, German Green Party, Green Politics, Environmentalism
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Sep 26, 2022
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Sep 26, 2022
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George Newham
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A history of English social services up to the end of the inter-war period but before the Beveridge Report which transformed the mindset and debate about the *Welfare State.* An insight into the pre-WWII mindset and what campaigners for the welfare state were up against.
Topics: Social services, Beveridge Report, Welfare State
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Sep 24, 2022
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Sep 24, 2022
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Trades Union Congress
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A pamphlet covering the coverage of trade unions and industrial disputes during the 1970s, and in particular during the final years of the Labour Government. Note this was around and after the time that the Chancellor had to go to the IMF for a bailout due to a balance of payments crisis, which imposed significant public spending cuts. Hence the widespread industrial action.
Topics: Print press, Labour Party, Trades Union Congress
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Sep 24, 2022
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Sep 24, 2022
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Labour Research Department
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By the Labour Research Department from 1945, a pamphlet about the railways and the case for nationalisation.
Topics: Labour Party, Labour Research Department, National Union of Railwaymen, Trades Union Congress
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Sep 23, 2022
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Sep 23, 2022
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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How do you fund Local Government? Especially after the previous model was violently rejected in the UK in 1990.
Topic: Local Income Tax
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Sep 23, 2022
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Sep 23, 2022
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HMSO
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From the Layfield Inquiry into Local Government Finance of 1976 - an in-depth look at the case for local income taxation to fund local council services. Includes international comparisons with Sweden, USA, and Canada and asks if it could work in the UK.
Topics: Local government, English local councils, local income tax, local government finance
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Sep 21, 2022
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Sep 21, 2022
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Cicely McCall
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The history of, and the war time record of Women's Institutes. Published in 1943.
Topic: Women's Institute
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Sep 21, 2022
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Sep 21, 2022
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Co-operative Press Ltd
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Proposals on how the Co-operative Movement could take on the print press barons. A follow-on from their 1936 publication.
Topics: Co-operative movement, press barons, UK tabloids
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Sep 21, 2022
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Sep 21, 2022
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A.G. Ives
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A short history of British hospitals
Topics: Hospitals, NHS
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Sep 21, 2022
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Sep 21, 2022
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Trades Union Congress
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A manifesto for Jobs by the Trades Union Congress circa late 1980s.
Topics: Unemployment, Trades Union Congress, Thatcher
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Sep 19, 2022
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Sep 19, 2022
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Labour Research Department
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Labour Research Vol 65 No.2 From Feb 1976 Contents include: Cars: Following the wrong signs (on productivity and safety) Health and Safety Community Land Act 1975 Earnings survey Devolution Import controls
Topics: Labour Research Department, Labour Party, Community Land Act
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Sep 19, 2022
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Sep 19, 2022
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Labour Research Department
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Labour Research Vol 64 No8 from August 1975. Contents include: Who backs the Tories? (Looking at big business donations) Inequality - life at the top Pensions - life at the bottom Regional policy - who benefits? Supply of equipment for North Sea Oil
Topics: Labour Party, Labour Research
Two articles from Classic Bus Magazine of buses in Brighton and Cambridge from decades gone by.
Topics: Brighton buses, Cambridge Buses, Bus, Public Transport
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Sep 19, 2022
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Labour Research Department
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Labour Research Vol 64 number 11 from November 1975. Contents include: Import controls Women in trade unions Dock labour Criminal trespass (in the context of strikes eg sit-ins, occupations) Who paid for the 'Yes' vote? - The referendum for the UK to stay in the EEC / Common Market as was Social Contrast / Rich and poor Labour Party Conference
Topics: Labour Party, EEC, Women workers, Strikes
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Sep 19, 2022
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Labour Research Department
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By the Labour Research Department (LRD) Vol 69 No 4 April 1980 covering: - North Sea Gas - Overtime in the UK (at a time of high unemployment) - Central Government meddling with local councils - Private sector employers vs trade unions - Printing (then a highly unionised sector
Topics: Labour Party, Labour Research Department, Unemployment, British Gas, North Sea Oil
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Sep 17, 2022
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The Ecology Party, The Green Party
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Employment policy by The Ecology Party of England & Wales, later The Green Party of England and Wales Part 1 - losing jobs A: Unemployment - the challenge B: The scale of the problem C: The failure of conventional remedies, including: - "All you need is growth" - Recent political developments - Why economic growth must fail the jobless - The new technology Part 2 - Jobs to last A: Sustainable development B) The transitional economy, includiung - Striking the balance - Sustainable...
Topics: The Green Party, The Ecology Party, Unemployment, Joblessness, Thatcher, 1980s
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Sep 17, 2022
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The Ecology Party, The Green Party
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A policy paper from 1981 by The Ecology Party of England & Wales - later The Green Party of England & Wales. Contents: 1) Energy as a natural resource 2) The energy gap 3) The solution - efficiency Energy efficiency - heat Energy efficiency - electricity Energy efficiency - oil 4) The solution - alternatives
Topics: Ecology Party, Green Party, Energy Efficiency, Climate Change
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Sep 16, 2022
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Co-operative Press Ltd
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Proposals from the Co-operative Movement on how to respond to the domination of the print press barons in the media, and how they were preventing social and political progress. Their plan involved investing in their existing daily publication "Reynolds News" and encouraging Co-op members (of which there were millions) to buy it, and co-operative businesses to advertise in it. The newspaper was acquired by the Co-operative movement in 1929, having been founded in 1850. (See the...
Topics: Co-operative, Co-op
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Sep 15, 2022
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies
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By the Institute for Fiscal Studies in 1991, their analysis on how local councils and local public services they provide should be funded. They concluded with a policy of local income taxation. This book was published a year after the Poll Tax Riots and a widespread non-payment campaign that helped bring down the Government of Margaret Thatcher. (Less than two years before a general election). The replacement Council Tax based on property indexed to the values of the time was only supposed to...
Topics: Local Taxation, Poll Tax, Rates, Property Tax, Council Tax
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Sep 15, 2022
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Trades Union Congress
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By the Trades Union Congress, the conclusions of an inquiry by representatives of British trade unions on the case for paid annual leave / paid time off for holidays - something we take for granted today. Includes the cross-examination of Sir Walter Citrine, the General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress before WW2. On the Committee was Ernest Bevin of the mighty Transport and General Workers' Union. Three years later, Bevin was made Minister for Labour and National Service by Winston...
Topics: Workers' Rights, Trade unions, Trades Union Congress, Bevin
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Sep 13, 2022
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Workers' Educational Association
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A concise but imaginative proposal for a bespoke adult education centre as proposed by the Derby and District Branch of the Workers' Educational Association.
Topics: Adult Education, Workers' Educational Association, Lifelong Learning
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Sep 12, 2022
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Co-operative Printers
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A pamphlet on the failed campaign to save the Oxford-Cambridge Railway Line in 1963. It's now costing nearly £1billion to re-open it over half a century after it was closed!
Topics: British Rail, UK Railways, Varsity Line, Oxford Cambridge
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Aug 24, 2022
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Desmond Heap
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This covers case studies of how things like a land value tax might be implemented - of relevance to today.
Topics: Land value tax, land reform
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Aug 21, 2022
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HMSO
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A pioneering report from the Ministry of Reconstruction (UK) on adult education at a time when universal male suffrage had only been brought in and used for the first time less than a year before.
Topics: Adult Education, Lifelong Learning
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Aug 21, 2022
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The Historical Association
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From Summer 1989 Features: Citizenship or subjectship? (History & the then new national curriculum) Women in two world wars Modern India - 1880-1974 Heraldry and the historian 150 years of photography - Francis Frith Dorthy Marshall at Girton College, Cambridge.
Topics: History, British History
From Spring 1988 Features: The Glorious Revolution in England 1688 History in Adult Education Spain - the centuries of greatness and decline The Young historian scheme
Topics: History, British History, Adult Education
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Aug 20, 2022
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Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd
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Includes: Control of Office building The French-Canadian Question - Ramsay Cook The Principate - Bertrand de Jouvenel Radicalism after 1964 - T McKitterick Politics of Examinations - KW Watkins Russia Revisited - William A Robson The City Region as an Administrative Unit - Derek Senior The Policy of Russia towards Sino-Indian Conflict - Hemen Ray
Topics: Politics, Town Planning, Urban Development, Cold War, UK politics
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Aug 19, 2022
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Stuart Gordon
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An analysis of the journey towards the privatisation of the UK's water industry by the Conservative Government in the 1980s, and Nick Ridley the Environment Secretary in particular - who had numerous run-ins with the then EEC (today the EU) over pollution.
Topics: Water industry, water privatisation, Thatcher, Nick Ridley
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CCAT
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The Cambridgeshire Technical College and School of Art, later the Cambridge College of Art and Technology (known locally as CCAT - or C-Cat!) published annual calendars of courses. The sheer diversity is incredible - along with some huge names in local history being listed as involved including - Henry Morris (Founder of the Village Colleges) - Clara Rackham (Suffragist, CND member, and councillor) - Lilian Mellish Clark - Miles Burkitt - Howard Mallett (Former Mayor) - Cyril Ridgeon (Former...
Topics: Cambridge, CCAT, Anglia Ruskin University, Anglia Polytechnic University, Clara Rackham
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Aug 17, 2022
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Town and Country Planning Association TCPA
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An extract from Country Towns in the future England by the Town and Country Planning Association from their conference in Oct 1943
Topics: Town planning, urban planning, arts centres, community centres
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Town and Country Planning Association
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Contributions from a conference held by the Town and Country Planning Association (think Garden Cities) - the TCPA - from Oct 1943 looking at the role of towns in the future of post-war England. Sessions covered 1) Country towns - their potentialities and needs 2) Industrial estates in country towns - siting, layout, development, and administration 3) Social amenities and the arts in country towns 4) Legislation needed 5) Resolutions adopted
Topics: Garden cities, town planning, urban design, arts centres, social centres, community centres,...
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Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales
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A lovely guide to the centre opened in 1974 by the Society for Environmental Improvement. This booklet dates from 1981 and is full of practical examples of sustainable technologies of the era being deployed on a campus/site that enables people to stay on the site and learn how they are used.
Topics: Sustainable technology, green technology, environmentalism, solar, wind power, water reuse
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Sir William Beveridge
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An account of research and interviews by Sir William Beveridge with scientists and researchers who fled continental Europe for the UK, USA, and elsewhere to escape the rise of fascism and nazism across the continent in the 1930s.
Topics: Beveridge, Science, WWII
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Aug 10, 2022
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Frank Field
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Frank Field published this extensively researched book just over a year after he was elected an MP.
Topics: Inequality, poverty, social policy
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Calvocoressi and Wint
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A contemporary piece analysing the historical and contemporary factors that resulted in the disaster at Suez for the British and French Governments in 1957.
Topics: Suez, Middle East
A joint publication by the then Ecologist Magazine highlighting the damage humans are doing to our planet, and their recommendations for world wide changes. Worth reading in the context of what has happened in the half century that has passed, and what we're experiencing today.
Topics: Ecologist, Environment, Climate Change, Pollution
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CUP
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A limited edition print run celebrating the opening of the now closed and demolished printing presses at Cambridge.
Topic: Cambridge University Press
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The Liberal Party
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A short policy document on the post-war problems of agriculture in the UK - and food shortages. Likely circa 1950 given the content.
Topics: Liberal Party, Liberal Democrats, Food shortages WWII
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Liberal Party
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A short policy pamphlet from the UK Liberal Party likely 1936 as it calls for the Reoccupation of the Rhineland by the Nazis in breach of the Treaty of Versailles to be reversed immediately. Chapter headings: 1) Peace 2) Unemployment 3) Housing 4) Health 5) The rising generation (education) 6) Cost of living 7) Economy 8) Temperance (alcohol sales) 9) Woman as a wage earner 10) Proof of good faith 11) Acknowledgement to all Women 12) Final Word
Topics: Liberal Party, Liberal Democrats
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Aug 10, 2022
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The Liberal Party
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A guide published by the UK Liberal Party from 1950 on how to run a constituency association. This was at the time the party was at its weakest with parliamentary seats/numbers of MPs in single figures
Topics: Liberal Party UK, LibDems
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Aug 10, 2022
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Paul Ritter
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An in depth study of urban planning and the competing demands of motorists versus everyone else from the mid-1960s. Covers a large number of post-war regeneration and redevelopment case studies, and raises a host of issues that have not gone away in the 21st Century. Worth comparing the case studies with how things have turned out with over half a century's of experience with what was built.
Topics: Town planning, urban design, roads, cars, traffic, transportation, urbanism, newtowns.
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Aug 9, 2022
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NIACE
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An in-depth history of adult education in the UK. 1) Historical context 2) 19thC 3) Overview of British Adult Education in 20thC 4) Local Education Authorities & Adult Ed 5) Community Education - the dialectics of development 6) Literacy & Adult Education 7) The Workers' Educational Association 8) University Adult Education 9) Residential Colleges and Non-Residential Settlements & Centres 10) Independent Working Class Education, Trade Union Education & Training 11) The Open...
Topics: Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Workers' Educational Association, Open University, Adult School...
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Aug 9, 2022
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C Miller
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A guide from the mid-1980s on how lobbyists lobbied central government at a time of privatisation, before the Internet, and before the televised footage of the House of Commons.
Topics: Parliament, Government, UK politics, Lobbying
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